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“Hey, Leon! Your bass sure is walking now!”

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Aaaaa!.. It's a nudibranch beach!... Drive, George, drive! Kids, don't look!

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“Me? I was charging on the right, when you suddenly went left, so I went left, and then you went right again, you idiot!”

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The Almost Weekly Thread is my attempt at keeping the community active while I’m unable to post at least once a week like I used to. Consider it a programmed but totally irregularly scheduled publication ;)

For this first issue, I got the idea from a recent comment from @Œ[email protected] that mentioned scratch building their own notebooks using scrap of leather for the cover.

DIY is great idea and helps making the journal even more ours. It is something I’ve been doing on and off (off for the last two years or so) myself with great satisfaction.

There is no need to use leather, or anything fancy to make one. As a matter of fact you probably already have all you need to make a simple one from scratch: some copy paper, a stapler and maybe some thicker paper or cardboard for the cover. Your journal can be as simple and as fancy (and as expensive or as cheap) as you want it to be.

The required tools are limited: like I said a stapler or, better, a needle and some threat, maybe a folding bone (to neatly fold your sheets of paper) and a paper trimmer thingy (I don’t know the English word for those guillotine-like paper cutter) that will help you get neat edges.

Along the years, I’ve made some notebooks myself ranging from the real fancy one (I learned to do book binding three decades ago) to the real dirt cheap ones, made from a stack of printer paper, some empty cardboard box for the cover, and a couple staples.

I loved using them a lot and they all felt so much more personal than purchased notebooks, no matter how cheap and quickly I made them. Each was uniquely mine.

Curious to give it a try? Great!

• If you have zero experience in book binding, this video is an excellent introduction that will teach you how to do everything properly and should help you get a real fine handmade notebook. Something you would not mind gifting to someone you care about: Bookbinding Basics: Chapter 2 - Basic Materials & How To Make Your First Notebook.
  BTW, the channel in its entirety is absolutely excellent and well worth watching but it focuses on bookbinding more than on journaling ;)
• The previous video focuses on making a nice simple notebook but it still takes some efforts to achieve. If you want to experiment faster and simpler (and cheaper too, maybe) you can check this other video: Pocket notebooks // How-To | I Like To Make Stuff.
• Finally, as a middle ground between the two I would suggest this video: My hand-made pocket journal.

Personal advice: don’t be afraid to try stuff out and to screw up. That's how you learn anything that is worth learning, and even with some issues it will still be your very own unique journal and I'm willing to bet you will like it ;)

Like I think I mentioned, I always have had a soft spot for my own diy notebooks even the cheapest/dirtiest I've made. And I will never hesitate to make one, say for a short-lived occasion (a few days or weeks worth of writing) as I simply use less sheets of paper to make it. It’s also a very simple way to be able regularly renew your journal too: change the cover and the paper. And maybe beside using a ring binder of some sort it's the only practical way I can think of to use a mix of various papers in the same journal.

Also, when I’m in a hurry (polite version of ‘when I feel too lazy’) I don't bother with making anything fancy. I simply fold a few sheets of paper (I prefer watercolor papers, since I like to sketch but a less expensive mixed media paper will do fine too, and if I was only writing or sketching without using watercolors I would not mind using 80gsm copy paper from Clairefontaine) that I staple, not even trimming the edges.

Nope, I don’t worry the staples might be rusting because of the water in my watercolors as I seldom do heavy watercolors washes in my journals but even if it was to rust, so be it, it would simply be part of that journal.

And yeah, when I feel less lazy I can properly bind the signatures using some thread and a needle and I may even use some nice cover material too ;)

Thought you guys might appreciate this here. Japanese song, so here's the lyrics through Google translate:

June serenade

The sound of rain echoes

A solemn symphony

Hymns come together

I offer prayers

The street corners are colorful

Umbrellas come and go

Standing still

The ambient music

Feeling dizzy

Getting wet in the rain

I listen carefully

Lalala la la la la la

The rain is coming, just like sing me a song

Baroque and brick city

The rain washes me away

Lalala la la la la la

The rain is coming, just like sing me a song

Edit: dumb markdown is one of my pet hates. Imagine not being able to make new lines without knowing the secret code, so that it doesn't all just get jumbled together.

This fork introduces a Radio Station feature where AI generates continuous radio music. The process involves two key components:

LLM: Generates the lyrics for the songs. ACE: Composes the music for the generated lyrics.

Due to the limitations of slower PCs, the demo video includes noticeable gaps (approximately 4 minutes) between the generated songs.

If your computer struggles to stream songs continuously, increasing the buffer size will result in a longer initial delay but fewer gaps between songs (until the buffer is depleted again).

By default the app attempts to load the model file gemma-3-12b-it-abliterated.q4_k_m.gguf from the same directory. However, you can also use alternative LLMs. Note that the quality of generated lyrics will vary depending on the LLM's capabilities.

Credit to u/Makalukeke

Occurred just over 16 months ago. How time flies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_B1058#Demise

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/a-commanders-lament-on-the-loss-of-a-historic-spacex-rocket/